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with The Bookseller for the first time running a unified book and trade event under the Nibbies banner. PRH and Hachete dominate the six book awards categories, earning 22 (10 apiece) of the 30 available slots. Pan Mac impressively has 10 shortlistings in the trade categories and it will compete against itself three times: Bluebird and Picador are up for Imprint, Carole Tonkinson and Wayne Brookes for Editor, while the campaign for Joe Wicks’ Lean in 15—The Sustain Plan and the 2016 Christmas Campaign will vie for Market- ing Strategy of the Year. Corporate behemoth HarperCollins has four nods, two ahead of Simon & Schuster. Meanwhile, indie publish- ers with strong showings include Nosy Crow and Faber,
Imprint of the Year Avon
HarperCollins
Bluebird
Pan Macmillan
John Murray Hodder & Stoughton
Penguin Ireland
Penguin Random House
Picador
Pan Macmillan
The Borough Press HarperCollins
Independent Bookshop of the Year
Chorleywood Bookshop South-East England
Far From the Madding Crowd Scotland
Forum Books North England
Kenilworth Books Midlands & Wales
Lindum Books East England
Sarum Coll. Bookshop South-West England
Tales on Moon Lane London
The Gutter Bookshop Ireland
Sponsored by: Clays
Children’s
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
J K Rowling (Little, Brown)
Nadiya’s Bake Me a Story
Nadiya Hussain (Hodder)
Oi Dog!
Kes and Claire Gray; Jim Field (Hodder)
The Christmasaurus Tom Fletcher (PRH Children’s)
The Girl of Ink & Stars
Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Chicken House)
The World’s Worst Children
David Walliams; Tony Ross (HarperCollins)
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Fiction
Cartes Postales from Greece Victoria Hislop (Headline)
Days without End Sebastian Barry (Faber)
The Essex Serpent Sarah Perry (Serpent’s Tail)
The Muse
Jessie Burton (Picador)
The Sellout
Paul Beatty (Oneworld)
This Must be the Place Maggie O’Farrell (Headline)
Sponsored by: The Firsty Group
Crime and Thriller Conclave
Robert Harris (Hutchinson)
Dodgers Bill Beverley (No Exit Press)
I See You
Clare Mackintosh (Little, Brown)
Lie with Me Sabine Durrant (Mulholland Books)
Night School
Lee Child (Bantam Press)
The Widow
Fiona Barton (Bantam Press)
Sponsored by: HarperCollins
Début
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain Barney Norris (Doubleday)
Golden Hill
Francis Spufford (Faber)
My Name is Leon Kit de Waal
(Penguin General)
The Girls
Emma Cline (Chatto)
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep Joanna Cannon (Borough Press)
What Belongs to You Garth Greenwell (Picador)
Sponsored by: The Reading Agency
Non-fiction lifestyle
Five on Brexit Island Bruno Vincent (Quercus)
Hello, is this Planet Earth?
Tim Peake (Century)
Lean in 15: The Sustain Plan Joe Wicks (Bluebird)
Sidemen: The Book (Coronet)
The Little Book of Hygge Meik Wiking
(Penguin Life)
The Unmumsy Mum Sarah Turner (Bantam Press)
Sponsored by: Orion
Non-fiction narrative Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen (S&S)
East West Street Philippe Sands (W&N)
Mad Girl
Bryony Gordon (Headline)
The Good Immigrant Nikesh Shukla (ed) (Unbound)
The Outrun
Amy Liptrot (Canongate)
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi (Vintage)
which both have four nods, and Oneworld, with a trio. It is a women’s world in publishing categories recog- nising individuals: seven of the shortlistees for Editor and Rights Professional of the Year are women, as are five of the six nominated for Agent of the Year. A record three Editor shortlistees come from the chil- dren’s sector, including Usborne’s esteemed publish- ing director Jenny Tyler, who is up for her first gong in her near-40-year career at the publisher. For booksellers, W H Smith Travel will look to retain
its Retailer of the Year crown, while Waterstones features in three categories. For indie shops, London’s Tales on Moon Lane and Scotland’s The Edinburgh Bookshop lead the way, with two shortlistings apiece. ×
Independent Publisher of the Year
Bradt Travel Guides
Faber & Faber
Head of Zeus
Kogan Page
Nosy Crow
Oneworld
Summersdale
Unbound
Individual Bookseller of the Year
Billy F K Howorth Carnforth Bookshop
Cat Anderson
The Edinburgh Bookshop
Jo Heygate
Pages of Hackney
Rachel Murphy Waterstones
Rebecca MacAlister Blackwell’s
Rupert Jacques W H Smith Travel
Steven Walsh Gosh! Comics
Library of the Year
Barking Learning Centre
Camberwell Library
Plymouth Central Library
RNIB Library
Walsall Library Service
The Word Library, South Shields
Booking
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Literary Agent of the Year
Camilla Shestopal
Peters Fraser + Dunlop
Catherine Clarke
Felicity Bryan Associates
Eve White Eve White
Literary Agency
Juliet Mushens Caskie Mushens
Rory Scarfe Furniss Lawton
Sarah Such Sarah Such
Literary Agency
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